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| Popmatters |
![Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power [Reissue] review](http://www.sweetslyrics.com/poze/ffffffff.jpg) “Search and Destroy” is, of course, the all-time badass anthem. “I’m a street-walkin’ cheetah with a hide full of napalm / I’m the runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb” is as undiluted and perfect a distillation of fuck-you rock ‘n’ roll attitude as anything Muddy Waters or Robert Johnson ever came up with. The album it’s from is Raw Power, and the 38 minutes of feral mania that follow constitute one of the finest, bloodiest Dionysian works of art ever made. If it’s not the best, it’s only because the Stooges had already done it with Fun House. It’s not fair that anyone gets to be as awesome as Iggy Pop.This new Cadillac reissue restores David Bowie’s original mix, which is apparently something of a big deal. Originally much-criticized for being too trebly and thin, it gained some credibility after Iggy’s remix for a 1997 CD reissue attracted its own flak for being too shiny and digital. The Bowie mix is better, as it happens, though it doesn’t necessarily seem like it should be. It pushes the vocals and guitar way out front, leaving the drums and bass just low enough to still be audible. It seems kind of tinny at first, but the real focus of the album lies in Iggy’s vocals and James Williamson’s stinging guitar leads. Stripping down the music around them is an excellent case of less being more. Iggy’s old mix, by comparison, sounds a little too conventional for music this ferocious. So, there’s your 10 right there to begin with. There are two versions of this reissue coming out, though, with various configurations of additional material. Both the Legacy and Deluxe editions also feature Georgia Peaches, a live recording from Atlanta in 1973. Predictably, it’s pretty unhinged, and though the sound is bootleg-quality at best, it’s certainly not unlistenable. The addition of boogie-woogie piano to the band’s lineup highlights a connection with older forms of rock ‘n’ roll that otherwise wouldn’t be as immediately apparent, but the highlight is actually the stuff happening between songs, as the mics pick up comments from an audience clearly unprepared to receive Iggy’s message while Iggy baits them in turn. His speech following “Search and Destroy” is classic, starting with outright abuse and lascivious remarks before developing into a kind of free-association poem about Georgia peaches, then finally leading into “I Need Somebody”. Congratulations....full text |
| Rollingstone |
| To even hear the rhythm section on co-producer David Bowie's 1973 mix of Raw Power, you need to crank the volume until it feels like James Williamson's reckless guitar leads are piercing your skull. That's the vicious beauty of it. A 1997 reissue of the album experimented with a thicker, less dynamic mix; this new version reinstates Bowie's trebly, off-kilter production while adding clarity and heft the original LP lacked. Finally, the third and most brutal album from these Detroit legends gets both the rawness and the power it deserves. Iggy Pop delivers these desperate anthems as if he's lived every self-mythologizing line. "I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb," he rants in "Search and Destroy," embodying glam rock's theatricality while dumping its affectations. New band member Williamson, along with bassist Ron Asheton and drummer brother Scott Asheton, flail in a synchronized wallop that almost single-handedly invented punk. This new deluxe edition adds an equally unhinged 1973 Atlanta performance with confrontational banter and previously unreleased spasms like "Cock in My Pocket," plus a third disc of outtakes, a "Making of Raw Power" documentary DVD and testimonials from acolytes such as Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Tom Morello, Henry Rollins and Chrissie Hynde. Every addition adds insight to a band literally addicted to danger....full text |
| Thephoenix |
| We can argue all you want about proto-this and seminal that, but when Raw Power is on the stereo, it’s hard to deny that it’s the greatest rock record ever. If you even tried to, this record would probably stand up and punch you in the face. Nearly four decades after its original release in 1973, Raw Power — the Stooges’ third and final studio album before their recent reunion — remains a uniquely visceral listening experience, a confrontational slab of psychedelic punk made in the dead zone between psychedelia’s demise and punk’s birth. There’s something truly nihilistic in the way “Search and Destroy” and “Penetration” career toward ruin and so-called ballads like “Gimme Danger” and “I Need Somebody” sound poised to abandon all sanity. For a listener attuned to current, structured definitions of “heavy” music, this stuff is particularly volatile. In the ’90s, Iggy Pop created a new, “violent” mix of the album intended to supersede David Bowie’s much-maligned original production, but it’s that original production that’s the basis for this new Legacy Edition. The two discs include a few studio outtakes (“Doojiman” and “Head On”) and a live show from Atlanta in 1973 — dubbed “Georgia Peaches,” the recording sounds as if it were coming from the next room, and the band play as if they had learned the songs an hour earlier. It’s absolutely thrilling....full text |
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